Scientific Facts and Human Imagination
Readings:
Daston,
Goldstein, Jan, The Post Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850 part 1, chapter 1: The Perils of Imagination at the End of the Old Regime, pp. 27-59
Shapiro, Barbara, Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of the Relationship Between Natural Science, Religion, History, Law and Literature (Princeton, 1983), chapter 2: Natural Philosophy and Experimental Science, pp. 15-73.
Shapin, Steven, A Social History of Truth (Chicago, 1994), chapter 5: Epistemological Decorum: The Practical Management of Factual Testimony, pp. 193-242
Further Readings:
Brewer, John, Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1997)
Daston,
Ibid., Classical Probability in the Enlightenment (Princeton, 1988)
Ibid., ‘Enlightenment and Fear’, in What’s Left of Enlightenment? A Postmodern Question, ed. by Keith Michael Baker and Peter Hanns Reill (Stanford, 2001), pp
Ibid., ‘Science and the Discovery of the Imagination in Enlightened England’ Eighteenth-Century Studies 3 (1969): 108-35
Johns, Adrian, The physiology of reading and the Anatomy of Enthusiasm, in Religio Medico: Medicine and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England, ed. by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham (Aldershot, 1996), pp. 136-170.
Shapin, Steven/Schaffer, Simon, Leviathan and the Air-Pump (Chicago, 1985)
Barbara J. Shapiro, A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720
Fischer-Homberger, Ester, On the Medical History of the Doctrine of Imagination Psychological Medicine 9 (1979): 619-628